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May 29, 2011 1:33 pm at 1:33 pm #597139HaLeiViParticipant
Most often, people will argue for what they want the case to be. Just listen to Congress. Whether or not they have a point is regardless. They argue for what they want for their constituents. You barely hear, ‘Good point. You’re right.’ In stead of wasting time arguing, just say, ‘that’s what I want’. So, what are brains for, to enjoy good wine?
May 29, 2011 2:29 pm at 2:29 pm #772192ursula momishMemberObviously, they are for posting threads like this.
May 29, 2011 2:38 pm at 2:38 pm #772193always hereParticipant“what are brains for?”
eating .. sweetbreads 😉
May 29, 2011 3:26 pm at 3:26 pm #772194SacrilegeMemberSweetbreads are the Thymus Gland.
May 29, 2011 3:28 pm at 3:28 pm #772195popa_bar_abbaParticipantSweetbreads are the Thymus Gland.
Please don’t tell me that’s what brains are for. (knowing that)
May 29, 2011 3:37 pm at 3:37 pm #772196always hereParticipantoops! I stand corrected. *ouch*
May 29, 2011 7:08 pm at 7:08 pm #772197ItcheSrulikMemberBrains are for baiting zombies.
May 29, 2011 7:21 pm at 7:21 pm #772198☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantSweetbreads are the Thymus Gland.
I always thought it was the pancreas.
May 29, 2011 7:29 pm at 7:29 pm #772199HealthParticipant“What are brains for??”
IDK; Ask someone who has them!
May 29, 2011 8:19 pm at 8:19 pm #772200ZeesKiteParticipantWatch out. Someone with brains might find this thread ‘not amusing’.
May 29, 2011 8:35 pm at 8:35 pm #772201YW Moderator-80MemberThere are different pshutim of what sweetbreads are
May 29, 2011 8:48 pm at 8:48 pm #772202am yisrael chaiParticipantDY could be both
May 29, 2011 9:19 pm at 9:19 pm #772203SacrilegeMemberThere are many different parts of the animals body that can be called ‘sweetbreads’, some people call rocky mountain oysters ‘sweetbreads’.
When you go to a restaurant and order sweetbreads, or go to a Simcha and are served sweetbreads you are getting the Thymus Gland.
May 29, 2011 10:59 pm at 10:59 pm #772204oomisParticipantThymus. My father in law was a butcher and he was the one who informed it was not brains. I LOVE sweetbreads.
May 30, 2011 12:47 am at 12:47 am #772205YW Moderator-80Member“Sweetbreads or Ris are culinary names for the thymus (throat, gullet, or neck sweetbread) or the pancreas (heart, stomach, or belly sweetbread) especially of the calf (ris de veau) and lamb (ris d’agneau) (although beef and pork sweetbreads are also eaten).[1] Various other glands used as food are also called ‘sweetbreads’, including the parotid gland (“cheek” or “ear” sweetbread), the sublingual glands (“tongue” sweetbreads or “throat bread”).[2][3] The “heart” sweetbreads are more spherical in shape, and surrounded symmetrically by the “throat” sweetbreads, which are more cylindrical in shape.”
May 30, 2011 3:24 am at 3:24 am #772206HealthParticipant“What are brains for??”
IDK; Ask someone who has them!
OMG, Wait a minute – Did I just post this before?
Yea, I sure did. But how would I possibly remember?
I don’t have any brains!
May 30, 2011 3:34 am at 3:34 am #772207bezalelParticipantWithout brains we wouldn’t know that the sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side.
May 30, 2011 4:09 am at 4:09 am #772208basket of radishesParticipantSomehow I lost the purpose of this thread in its title and its dialogue. Best wishes.
May 30, 2011 4:56 am at 4:56 am #772209ursula momishMemberThis question came up many years ago, and one answer was put to music in 1939:
I could while away the hours, conferrin’ with the flowers
Consultin’ with the rain.
And my head I’d be scratchin’ while
my thoughts were busy hatchin’
If I only had a brain.
I’d unravel every riddle for any individ’le,
In trouble or in pain.
With the thoughts you’ll be thinkin’
you could be another Lincoln
If you only had a brain.
Oh, I could tell you why The ocean’s near the shore.
I could think of things I never thunk before.
And then I’d sit, and think some more.
I would not be just a nothin’ my head all full of stuffin’
My heart all full of pain.
I would dance and be merry, life would be a ding-a-derry,
If I only had a brain.
It seemed a lot more profound when I was a child.
May 30, 2011 5:46 am at 5:46 am #772210YW Moderator-42Moderator42
May 30, 2011 5:47 am at 5:47 am #772211YW Moderator-42Moderator42
May 30, 2011 5:49 am at 5:49 am #772212YW Moderator-42ModeratorBezalel’s post reminded me of a quote from the famous philosopher, Shaquille O’Neil: I’m a Pathagerian Theorem-nobody can figur me out!
May 30, 2011 5:52 am at 5:52 am #772213☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantDY could be both
When you go to a restaurant and order sweetbreads, or go to a Simcha and are served sweetbreads you are getting the Thymus Gland
I hadn’t known that, thanks.
May 30, 2011 5:55 am at 5:55 am #772214popa_bar_abbaParticipantWhen you go to a restaurant and order sweetbreads, or go to a Simcha and are served sweetbreads you are getting the Thymus Gland.
Actually, you get whatever they decide to serve you. Since they know most people don’t know what it is anyway, they just take the mushy stuff from when you cook ground turkey, and add potato starch to make it a little more jellish, and some other junk, and roll it on out.
May 30, 2011 6:47 am at 6:47 am #772215HaLeiViParticipantBezalel, you need brains for that? Just take out a paper and pen and do the math:
If you line up four rectangles into a box you will be left with a square space in the middle. So to get the length of a hypotenuse of one of the rectangles, you’d have to get the total area created by the four hypotenuses and get its root. That is done by doubling the area of a rectangle: 2*a*b, and adding the middle box to it: (2*a*b) + (b-a)^2. The width/height of the middle box is b-a.
Now, we have altogether: 2ab + (b-a)^2, which can be written as:
ab, ab, (b-a)*(b-a)
Using FOIL, we write out the last part as: b^2, -ab, -ab, a^2
With the two negative ‘ab’s we cancel the ab,ab and we’re left with b^2 and a^2, so who would need brains for that?
May 30, 2011 6:55 am at 6:55 am #772216netazarParticipantbezalel’s quote is from the scarecrow in the wizard of oz, for those who missed it. And it’s totally wrong. The Pythagorean Theorem states: the sum of the SQUARES of the LEGS of a RIGHT triangle is equal to the SQUARE of the HYPOTENUSE.
May 30, 2011 1:13 pm at 1:13 pm #772217SacrilegeMember“they just take the mushy stuff from when you cook ground turkey, and add potato starch to make it a little more jellish, and some other junk, and roll it on out.”
Let me know where you had the sweetbreads that can be described as such so I can steer clear of that establishment.
(p.s. *applause* 80, can wiki)
May 30, 2011 4:01 pm at 4:01 pm #772218☕ DaasYochid ☕Participant(p.s. *applause* 80, can wiki)
He did put quotation marks, you know.
May 30, 2011 4:25 pm at 4:25 pm #772219am yisrael chaiParticipant“-ab, -ab
With the two negative ‘ab’s we cancel the ab,ab”
Actually, this would equal -2ab.
-ab +ab would cancel out
(there are other flaws, oh well)
May 30, 2011 5:37 pm at 5:37 pm #772220HaLeiViParticipantNot each other! The two ‘ab’s from the first part get canceled by the two ‘-ab’s of the second part. First part being: 2ab, second part being: (b-a)^2.
Well, I guess you need brains. Actually, there is a visual proof to the a^2 + b^2 = c^2 theorum. However, I can’t put it up here. I saw it in a Sefer by Reb Eliyahu of Izmir. The Gilyon Hashas in Menachos references it.
Draw four rectangles at right angles to each other, as above, and form a box. Next, draw a box from all hypotinuses. Also, extend the line from the inner tip of two rectangles until the end, that should give a large box on one corner and a frame on two sides of it. Now, if you take the areas of the squares created by any ‘a’ and ‘b’ from the outer rectangles, you’ll see that its pieces match those of the slanted square created by the hypotenuses.
Is a thousand words worth a picture?
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